My wife watches ANTZ for the FIRST time || Movie Reaction
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- Since we watched A Bug's Life, we figured we should probably watch its competing film "Antz" as well. This is my wife watching Antz for the first time!
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I never realized there were so many jokes in this movie that I didn't understand as a kid, but now watching it again with you guys I'm like "Oh, that's what they meant by that."
That's how good kids movies should be, entertaining for the kids but more enjoyable as an adult
That's Woody Allen's humor for you. It was always sarcasm.
You'd probably be surprised just how many films or even cartoons you watched as a kid that were like that. This is pretty well known, but The Simpsons is FULL of layers of subtle humor and satire that goes completely over kids' heads. They literally make a joke about Mr. Smithers waiting in line at the ER because he has something stuck up his rear, which might not sound like a joke The Simpsons would make, but that's because they don't actually say it outright, like a show like Family Guy probably would. You just have to be familiar with Mr. Smithers' character, and notice his awkward stance and the fact that he's the ONLY person standing, and he says very nervously "um....I really need to get this taken care of" when there isn't anything noticeably wrong with him.
That's writing so cleverly subtle, most _adults_ don't even realize the joke being hinted at there. But that's golden age Simpsons for you - not one line or moment is wasted on filler. Everything is an opportunity.
@turntsnaco824 I know Disney and Nickelodeon shows have a lot of adult jokes in them, and growing up, I caught them all.
same i never got the jokes and humor as a kid but looking back at it as an adult i now fully get it
"Some ants have wings."
"WHAT?!?!"
Didn't you two watch Ant-Man????
That's how Ant-Man traveled.
Yeah, that's a little goof on Jen's part 😂
For a choice of lower quality animation but a great story and characters, she should try "Hoodwinked!" (2005), which also has a star-studded cast.
Fuck yes that'd be perfect I remember thinking it looked rough as a kid yet I was glued even as a teen I remember sitting through it all no issue.
Ok, now you must watch Ant Bully to round out this trilogy of Ant movies.
Especially cause the kid in that also played aang from Avatar the last airbender
Exactly this.
YES
True, that's underrated.
LMAO "I sent it to the lord" is one of Holden's funniest lines ever 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It has to become a Whatsapp sticker or a meme XD.
The first ever DreamWorks Animated Feature which, ironically, came out the same year as A Bug's Life.
It's not ironic, they were actively trying to compete with Pixar. Similar to how Shark Tale came out a year after Finding Nemo.
Indeed, it wasn't an accident XD. If you want more context, look for the name "Jeffrey Katzenberg" and severalpieces of the puzzle will make sense.
I didn't how star studded this movie was. Funny how Gene Hackman plays the villain in this movie, he plays villain roles very well.
You should show Jen "Sky High". A fun superhero movie with a lot of comedy elements as well
I’m surprised they didn’t say anything about Woody Allen being the main character
The story about this movie is a bit more interesting that both stories.
- At Disney, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Chariman of Disney Films, had a MAJOR falling out with Michael Eisner, then CEO, and left and teamed up with Spielberg to make DreamWorks to be a competitor.
- They needed ideas for their first animated movie, so they went with one that was already in development at Disney called "Army Ants".
- Katzenberg after the split, kept in touch with the animated side of Disney, especially Pixar, like John Lasseter (Then head of Pixar, Toy Story 1 and 2 directors) and Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, Finding Dory, Wall-E, John Carter and episodes of Stranger Things)
- They talked about ideas, including one evolved idea "Bugs" ... Take of that what you will.
- That idea at Disney turned into their Pixar's second movie, A Bug's Life, and at DreamWorks, Antz.
- The rivalry really started after learning the premise was nearly the same, but both films did just as well critically and finically.
That fight lasted for years since, and looking at the current output now, there's been peaks and valleys here and there for both, but a bit more consistency with Disney and Pixar as whole, with DreamWorks with a banger every so often.
the Battle scene where the Ants fight against the Termites reminds me of Starship Troopers but with spears & axes instead of military weapons.
Jen was surprised that some ants have wings, lol. She may have forgotten the Antman movies from the MCU because we saw a whole bunch of ants fly
The backstory of this movie was this was their first film they made. The reason they are the same as Bugs Life is that the founder of Dreamworks worked at Pixar at the time when they were developing Bugs Life. He had a falling out with the project and the studio so he went off and founded Dreamworks and made Antz from the ideas he had working with Pixar
I have some more animated recommendations from two of my fave animation studios: Laika, who did Coraline, Box Trolls, Kubo and the Two Strings. And the other is Cartoon Saloon, an Irish studio that did Song of the Sea and Wolfwalkers. Check some of those out, they're EXCELLENT!
Sees Dot fly in a bugs life questions how ants fly lol
There's a lot of instances of movies being released around the same time with similar ideas or pitches. In Hollywood, sometimes a pitch or idea will get shopped around and bought by more than one studio, and then from there the screenplay gets developed and built up. Armageddon and Deep Impact, Antz and Bug's Life, Despicable Me and Megamind, etc etc.
It took me way too long to catch the joke that was the "wasps" having -British- old money accents lol
Their accent wasn't British it was old money New England but WASP was spot on.
@@ronweber1402 ah fair enough. I actually caught it this time that yeah it's not actually British lol. I think that was just what I thought it was with my dumb kid brain back in the day lol
They're W-A-S-Ps. White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. They're associated with New England's stuffy upper classes and things like the Ivy League
John Pwell's score was a stand-out part of the film to me. Still listen to that pretty often. The heroic themes and such paired well with the action sequences and more emotional moments. Outside of the army ants singing, it would work just as effectively if paired with a live action film.
Going through some fatigue right now and your reviews- especially of my childhood movies- are a good comfort. Appreciate the vids and hope you're both doing well.
2:25 "with the sting of the whip on my shoulders, and the salt of my sweat on my brow"
Me and my family love this movie, so much so that we now have "for the good of the colony" as a family meme.
YOU WOULD LOVE THE ANT BULLY!!!!! PLEASEEEEE
Yes!!!
Can confirm Old Dutch is top tier for chips! But also Top the Tater is top tier sour cream! And together... oh no now i'm hungry
9:58 I don't know why, but that was the one humorous part I never understood as a kid, and it wasn't even an adult joke! Now that I'm rewatching for the first time in many years with you guys, my laughing cannot even fathom the amount of facepalming right now.
A classic and underrated DreamWorks movie. One of the best moments I remember this movie was the adult jokes lol.
Having movies with the same animal protagonists published relatively close to one another has always been a thing.
We’ve had two penguin movies (Happy Feet & Surf’s Up), two rat movies (Ratatouille & Flushed Away) and many more.
Yea and it's not just animal movies either that are similar that come out so close in release to each other
Armageddon/Deep Impact
Dante's Peak/Volcano
Mission to Mars/Red Planet
Finding Nemo/Shark Tale
The Prestige/The Illusionist
No Strings Attached/Friends with Benefits
Despicable Me/Megamind
Paul Blart: Mall Cop/Observe and Report
Etc.
@@stevenfriedman2902
You’re right. I just didn’t want to google all these movies. 😆
Indeed, it's a common Hollywood trope. But there is an extra spicy layer when it comes to Disney and Dreamworks: and we can trace it back to Jeffrey Katzenberg.
Katzenberg, once a Disney executive (so invested in the company's work that he went and backstabbed a deal with Robin Williams to the point Williams swore never to work with Disney again), left the company angry after he didn't get a promotion he wanted.
Did he lay low and recover? No; he went, joined Dramworks and used some of the knowledge he had about coming productions to make full frontal war against Disney (to begin with). And then, he went on to openly mock Disney with another thing called Shrek...
We used to go to movies with my grandpa growing up, and one of his favorite stories he would tell was how when we went to see Antz there was an ad for Raid bug spray before the movie
Fun story.
I follow this one streamer who was playing KH3 and during Toy Story world he rememberd a story his university professor told them. He was friends with both people from Pixar who worked on A Bug's life and people from dreamworks who worked on this, and people from Pixar were proud of what they did with A Bug's life, meanwhile guys working on Ants went "Yeah, we know it's shit".
I still have this movie on VHS😫
I always think of ANTZ as kind of a rough draft for the SHREK movies; very similar humor with a self-aware vibe. Also, you guys should watch some of the actual Woody Allen movies that they're homaging.
Well the thing is, Dreamworks’ animated movies aren’t really for kids.
Antz, Shrek, Shark Tale, Flushed Away etc.
I honestly liked both films but was partial to ANTZ even as a kid when it first came out lol Seeing Kendall on the oil bottle my first time seeing my name in "the wild" lol plus, I'll never forget getting to Weaver being interrogated and my Dad going "Rocky's STILL getting his ass beat" lol
I’m so ready for this. Hope y’all enjoy this. This is one of my favorite childhood movies. Please watch James and The Giant Peach. I’m actually begging Jen.
What I still find wild about this movie is that they managed to get Woody Allen of all people to voice star in a semi-kid movie
That same year there was another DreamWorks vs. Disney (or even Spielberg/Katzenberg vs. Disney) showdown, with the Rat emerging victorious once more: Deep Impact vs. Armageddon.
Thought I enjoyed Deep Impact, Armageddon is the most memorable one.
Yes, 1998 was a good year for movies…
Shakespeare in Love,
Saving Private Ryan,
Truman Show,
Big Labowski,
Half Baked,
There’s Something About Mary,
American History X,
Enemy of the State,
Hope Floats
I grew up with both A Bugs Life and ANTZ, so I never really had a preference. It’s cool how they tackle the same social issues while taking different approaches. Another ant related film I highly recommend is Ant Bully which has great animation, great funny moments, and a great message. I also loved to see Jen’s reaction to The Bee Movie as well.🐜💚🖤
Hey guys from Alberta Canada 🇨🇦. Just have to chime in with Jen about Old Dutch chips. Holden... she's RIGHT! they are top tier chips
Jen: I just meant get it out of here
Holden: Is that right? Yeah well I sent it to the lord
...I'm so using that line :')
I always remember watching this film and finding the marching song catchy then just being absolutely stunned at the following scene of a warzone and everyone getting slaughtered
A weird one that I like, as a kid to get from the rental store is osmosis Jones, which I feel like a lot of people don’t know about starring Bill Murray
Watching Antz as a kid.. and seeing the battle for the first time surely made an impact in my life...
If you to carry on with watching animated Ant films you guys should watch "Ant Bully"
It feels like the newly discovered clone sister have something to do with tech, both being more on the technical side, the way they both speak, both using glasses... and what she says to omega...
James and the giant peach 🍑 was my movie in the 90s good old days
A couple film reaction requests I had
* The Crow
* Baby Driver
* Mad Max movies
* Speed
* The Hangover
* The Other Guys
* Step Brothers
Jen gaslighting about the spider. lol
Jeffrey Katzenburg’s resentment towards Disney influenced a number of Dreamworks Animation’s early films.
omg i havent seen this since the vhs release 😭
I think you should watch Tarzan. It is by far my childhood favorite movie. I mean the story is so good, the music as well. Besides that, I think gorillas are more interesting than ants lol.
Good video nonetheless.
I also enjoy ANTZ more,, but If you think it's a coincidence that these 2 movies have such similar ideas, go look up the history of how DreamWorks began as a company. It's a lot to explain in a comment, but long story short, both movies came from the same idea. Jeffrey Katzenberg was giving Disney/Pixar the middle finger with this movie. I believe he had either been fired or had a major falling out with them, but this movie was specifically targeted nonetheless.
*when Holden uploads, you know it’s gonna be a good day*
I had issues with "A Bug's Life" cause some of the type of insects were missing some of their legs. The ants were all missing a pair of legs. Add onto that the fact that the size some of the bugs were not consistent with the size they probably should have been in comparison to each other or making the ants overly bright colors. So I preferred this because it felt like there were actually trying to do a story in the world of ants. Especially when you factor in the water fountain location or the picnic basket. It just felt like this movie cared more about trying to do a tail in a bug's life.
DreamWorks Pictures *ANTZ* was one of my Absolute childhood favorites since *A BUG’S LIFE* 🐜
I remembered that I used to watch both two Ant movies that are on DVD from my childhood when I was in Daycare & Pre-K for the first time!
Both of those to Ant movies came out in the same in 1998.
And that’s what I noticed about 1998 was a year for two ANT movies that are totally CG animation. One was Disney/Pixar. And one was DreamWorks Pictures or DreamWorks SKG before it was called *DreamWorks Animation.*
Both *ANTZ* & *A BUG’S LIFE* are *NOSTALGIA!*
The termite battle reminds me of starship troopers
Oh my gosh, it reminds me of that movie, too. Mainly cause of the amount of slaughter and stuff there is.
One movie if you guys haven't seen is the Lego movie, I expected it to be a cashgrab corporate movie back in the day. But it's charming and funny story made it one of my most favorite movies of all time. The animation makes it even better than ever
As soon as they were marching to war I remembered why thos movie scared me as a kid 😂
"Stealing ideas to make similar films must have gotten to Dreamworks, somehow..."
To an extent, you can give a name to that "somehow": Jeffrey Katzenberg, at the time an angry ex-Disney executive, out for payback. Some won't be familiar with his name, but while working at Disney he was responsible of several changes and bussiness moves that can be described as "purely evil" (for example, the move that pissed off Robin Williams after Aladdin was Katzenberg's doing).
Katzenberg, a creative force on his own (it can't be helped, the guy has good ideas and knows the bussiness), left Disney after a series of altercations that ended up with him not being appointed to a position that he wanted. What was his strategy after that? Working for competing studios to beat Disney's works every single time.
That's why (surprise, surprise) when Disney starts working on a 3D animated film mostly focused on ants, the company accross the street makes a similar film (with the intention to appeal to larger audiences; following partially a formula introduced by Katzenberg: use a star packed cast). The crown jewell of Katzenberg v. Disney would come later in a form that you already know and love: a project called Shrek.
i completely forgot Sylvester Stallone was the buff ant (Weaver) lol
ANTZ all day baby!!! Y'all watching these classic movies is taking me back to my childhood ❤
my family had a shipping store and when i was a kid i would have to go there on the weekends and there was this box with about 30 movies in it and Antz was one of those movies and i would have this movie in rotation all the time ive probably seen this movie like 100s of time lol
Yoooo 😂😂 she actually was down to watch it🔥🔥🔥
Since we’re on “aunts” theme movies, might as well watch The Ant Bully next :))
I WOULD SAY ANTZ IS BETTER THAN A BUG'S LIFE!
HEY LOOK ANOTHER ANT MOVIE!
I love love loveeeee Jen’s Maul shirt!!
SHOUTOUT to OLD DUTCH which comes from where I do in Manitoba Canada lol
18:56 Dude, this is part of Antz that I was scared of as a little kid.
I did not know that Antz had the Twin Towers in the final shot. Thats so cool!
24:16 I was expecting you would throw in the "I am the Senate" meme here. :D
Holden just remember to print out the entire bee movie script and read it as your reacting for as long as you can
Ants 100% watched both as a kid but loved and rewatcged many times in the lineup you discussed earlier with Lion King 2 and Lil mermaid 2
One movie i'd love to see you guys react to is the disney movie "dinosaur", it was one of my favorite movies to watch growing up (and still love watching it today with my nephews lol)
we want more bugs movies like the bee movie, ant bully, and turbo even tho its a snail movie lol
Just realizing now that I never actually saw this movie in English. My family owned a VHS copy of it in Spanish and thats the only way I had ever watched it. Was still a good movie.
What about "Ant Bully" next! Keep the ant train going!
LMAO I SEND THEM TO THE LORD!
YES PEPSI AND MOUNTAIN DEW!
Jen's reactions to DreamWorks and Pixar/Disney's animated movies have been delightful. Can't help but wonder how she would react to Anime. Maybe reacting to all the openings of an anime, like Naruto, would pull her into liking anime, or at least to an extent.
Fun fact, for the latin version of both A bug's life and Antz, Hopper and General Mandible are played by the same voice actor.
Both characters are also played by Lex Luthor.
@@Kal-El_138 yep
Wondering if u will ever react to the road to eldorado. You have been a ton of fun to watch I have watched dozens of videos now when I only saw u guys a few days ago. Thank you so much keep them going.
I saw this in theaters and I definitely like this one more as an adult. The script is sooo much better than A Bug's Life. The penny joke had me rolling!
I’m with Jen I watched James and the giant peach countless times it’s one of my favs… also Oliver and company
There is another ant movie called: The Ant Bully, it's from Warner Bros and I would say it would fit right along Antz and Bugs life. Please look it up and decide if you would want to watch it, I would love to see a video about that movie
The message is also better.
Viva La Revolution !!!
One of my favorite movies of all time!
I was lowkey worried for Falcon for a sec 😂❤
For more bug themed movies there is also The Ant Bully
Can we get The Ant Bully next so we can complete the Ant Trilogy
Exactly 😂
I always preferred Ants, I thought the idea of Ant armies really cool.
Jen - “I don’t really like bugs”
Me - “the only good bug is a dead bug” (please watch starship troopers 😭)
Yes Old Dutch !
Sticking with the ants/bug films should watch ant bully also
Jen, James and the giant peach has bugs in it!
A lot of the jokes in this movie aren’t really for children 😂. So, looking back on it now and hearing the jokes. It’s hilarious😂 I think it’s because the movie tries to be kid like but it is riddled with stuff that kids simply won’t understand. That’s just my opinion though.
Since you guys are watching kids/family movies I would love to see you guys react to Hook if one of you haven't seen it yet. It's my all time favorite childhood movie!
Would recommend you wrap up the Bug trilogy with Bee Movie. It's nothing like the other two, it's more modern, a pure comedy and yet a completely different tone again. Good watch
Antz! Man that was a good watch but still cuss words man and 1 decapitated head.
Also fun fact in the shoelace scene where z was on somebody shoe lace they used the same scene with bee movie where Barry Benson was on somebody lace
Antz is so mindblowing
I can not really remember the story, but i know i watched this movie in cinema when it came out. I was 10 years old.
I definitely like A Bug’s Life lot more but that’s just me. Such an underrated gem from Disney and Pixar! BTW, another underrated gem would be Over The Hedge which is another DreamWorks film. I recommend it if you guys did not see this film yet!
I saw this in college when it came out
There were kids' parents unsure what they were seeing.
I told the woman in front of me in a laughing manner... this IS a Woody Allen movie, afterall
Can't forget ant-bully
Gotta finish the trilogy and watch The Ant Bully